Re: [Gnu-arch-users] recover deleted files

[Charles Duffy]

On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 18:09, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> It appears to be attempting to determine the file id from the working 
> tree, not from the library revision.

Yes, that's what it looks like -- but "cp `file-find myfile.c` myfile.c"
is a common meme for recovering deleted files (from trees in which said
files' deletion has not yet been committed to the archive), so that
behaviour doesn't really make sense.